2026 Summer Reading Recommendations

Need a good book to read this summer? We asked our staff to give some recommendations for summer reading, and we got everything from Christian living and biographies to spiritual growth and missions resources.

Christian Living

• Everything is Never Enough by Bobby Jamieson 
  
  
• The Reason for Church by Brad Edwards
  
  
• The Lord of Psalm 23 by David Gibson
  
  
• Christianity for Modern Pagans by Peter Kreeft
  
  

• From the Rising of the Sun: A Journey of Worship around the Sun by Tim Challies and Tim Keesee

• A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation by Matthew Bingham

• You're Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God's Design and Why That's Good News by Kelly M. Kapic

non-fiction

• How to Know a Person by David Brooks

Fiction

• Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

Topical

• The Body God Gives: A Biblical Response to Transgender Theory by Rob Smith

• The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back? by Jim Davis and Michael Graham

• Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering by Kelly M. Kapic

Biography

• A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael by Elisabeth Elliot

• Don’t Let the Goats Eat the Loquat Trees by Thomas Hale Jr.
  
  
• God's Hostage: A True Story of Persecution, Imprisonment, and Perseverance by Andrew Brunson

Missions

• Paul's Missionary Methods: In His Time and Ours by Robert J. Plummer and John Mark Terry
  
  

• When Everything Is Missions by Dennis Spitters and Matthew Ellison

• Revolution in World Missions by K. P. Yohannan